From June 2-4 2017, more than 60 Babson student leaders, alumni, faculty, and staff gathered for the Black Affinity Network Leadership Retreat in Washington, D.C. The retreat was a professional development opportunity for participants in the Alumni Advisor Program as well as for the governing boards of the multiple student organizations within Babson’s Black Affinity…

Babson College Assistant Professor of Marketing, Lauren Beitelspacher, has been recognized by Poets & Quants as one of the Most Outstanding 40 under 40 Business School Professors. “In all, 75 professors from 40 different business schools all over the world were nominated by students, alumni and the schools themselves,” says Poets & Quants about the award.…

Peter Cohan, lecturer of business strategy and entrepreneurship at Babson, appears in the film, “We the People: The Market Basket Effect.” The film is the story of the employees of a local grocery chain, Market Basket, who went on strike in 2014 after CEO Arthur T Demoulas was fired by his cousin Arthur S Demoulas.…

What do Professors Crittenden, Gentile, Polutnik, and Zacharakis have in common? They are authors or editors of Business Expert Press titles, and these are available to Babson as eBooks via a link on the Horn Library A-Z List of Databases. Business Expert Press publishes concise, practical treatments of the topics typically taught in MBA programs. The books…

The Library recently renewed Babson’s annual site license to SSRN. In general, everyone at Babson has access to SSRN and anyone can post papers, but if you specifically sign up to be a member in a network, you get the following benefits: Access to specific eJournals, including billable ones free of charge, enabling you to…

Based on findings from a recent study, Professor Patricia Greene outlines five lessons from women-owned businesses that are achieving success despite current economic conditions. The study of women-owned businesses was done by NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business), Chase, and the Center for Women’s Business Research. The study also points to positive signs of growth for small…

Elaine Allen, Babson statistics & entrepreneurship professor, talks about the use of baseball data analysis for corporate management on April 5th with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television’s “Surveillance Midday”. Conversation based on her article, Fair or Foul, in QP.